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29 - VTCS

Verbal Tactics Coding Scheme

from Argument, Conflict, and Negotiations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2018

By
Alan L. Sillars
Edited by
Elisabeth Brauner ,
Margarete Boos  and
Michaela Kolbe
Elisabeth Brauner
Affiliation:
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Margarete Boos
Affiliation:
University of Göttingen
Michaela Kolbe
Affiliation:
ETH Zürich
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The Cambridge Handbook of Group Interaction Analysis , pp. 491 - 500
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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